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By Rory Steele, Executive Director, Freedom to Learn Foundation The Freedom to Learn Foundation (FTLF) is honored to stand shoulder to shoulder with a powerful coalition of literary and educational organizations in Penguin Random House v. Menke, challenging Iowa’s sweeping school book ban law, Senate File 496 (SF 496).  On July 24, 2025, we signed a […]

Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have allowed parents to request certain books and materials be removed from their child’s school.

Advocacy groups accused Florida officials of violating First Amendment rights and undermining the state’s review process for library books after school districts across Florida removed dozens of books the state’s attorney general called “pornographic.”

Libraries do more than just lend books. They offer community events, classes, access to computers — and they help preserve cultural knowledge. But, public funding is being slashed, delayed or taken back as the Trump Administration works to cut government programs. After recent federal cuts, one listener wants to know what’s going to happen to […]

Despite the international buzz over her latest romance novel “Deep End,” author Ali Hazelwood told fans she had to cancel her U.K. book tour.

For the second time this year, the federal government’s top watchdog concluded Monday that the Trump administration violated the law by withholding funding Congress already approved.

The Trump administration broke the law when it withheld funding for the nation’s libraries, a nonpartisan government watchdog said on Monday, a finding that inches the White House another step closer to a legal showdown over its powers to reconfigure the country’s spending.

May 23, 1955, was a bad day to be found with a dirty magazine in Rochester. The national “comics czar,” Charles F. Murphy, was in town to speak to the Chamber of Commerce and various self-appointed “clean-literature leaders.” Mayor Samuel Dicker had formally declared it Decent Literature Day in Rochester.